Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Janelle Schlossberger

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The result was delete. - Philippe 23:57, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Janelle Schlossberger

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This is an article about a high school girl who won a science competition for a "[not] shocking"[1] discovery relating to tuberculosis. The only coverage cited is a The New York Times article summarizing the competition and the press release from Siemens, who put on the competition. There's a lot of POV and OR in the article, and the information there not included in the only cited source makes me think that the author of the article personally knows the subject, raising conflict of interest and autobiography concerns. Her Google hits indicate that she is notable only for this one event. Ultimately, she won a contest with some unusually sophisticated results, but she isn't notable enough for a Wikipedia biography. Dylan (talk) 22:07, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

• Would this be worth mergig and redirecting to an article on tuberculosis? -- saberwyn 22:22, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Per below, probably not. -- saberwyn 12:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

• Merge and redirect to an article on modern tubercolosis research. Winning the Siemens competition is one thing, but it has not been established as a definite scientific achievement with applications in medicine, etc. If a couple of solid institutions come up and say, "yeah, she got us on to this new avenue" then its really notable. If you follow the Intel and Siemens competitions, every year you'll see "notable" people who are changing the world - which is very good, but not necessarily encyclopedic. Vishnava (talk) 23:35, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. Notable only for a winning entry in a research competition for teens, NOT for a breakthrough discovery. If we were to merge into tuberculosis every applicable science fair winning entry we'd have no room for the important stuff. --Dhartung | Talk 03:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete not notable, per nom and Dhartung.  Atyndall93 | talk  10:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. The text of this document contains unsolicited personal information that was posted without my consultation, knowledge, or approval. My recommendation is that it be permanently deleted from Wikipedia. Prs8765 (talk) 01:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Impressive, though, that anyone that young would be doing this type of research, if you ask me! BWH76 (talk) 16:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

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